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Had a similar view, it stack ranks well with the range in quality and craftsmanship. Though Moutai does deserve its own negative spectrum IMO. Rich, shot you a PM a few days back. Did you see it? Not offended (seriously) if you weren't interested. All the best, Kevin Sorry Kevin, been sidelined wit...

I think this is a very good scale. Not totally dissimilar from my own and I'm sure many others. Too many of us are conditioned by the Parker 100-point scale as well as the skew to the upper-bounds in point category. I would like to see a greater acceptance and quantity of wines scored in the range ...

Robert.A.Jr. wrote: ↑April 1st, 2021, 9:10 am Sweet!

Almost as great as these....

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Lol, Thanks for reminding me of my last stomach ache.

Here's some more contemporaneous coverage. WS1.jpg WS2.jpg Very amusing: "The hype over the 1996 vintage in Bordeaux has been amazing, despite the overwhelming superiority of the 1995 vintage." Sucking gave only 9.6% of the '96s scores over 90, compared to 38% of the '95s. 'Nuf said. (Kei...

Grappa. If that doesn’t remove the taste, then nothing will. Cracked me up! Great line, punch line. love it, I'm still cackling- This made me cry almost. As a kid, had this once being polite staying over a friends place as it was on the table. I tried it and Grappa might have helped lol. Adult year...

Maybe not all of them, but they will be ahead of the 2017s. I also have 2014s I want to drink up. You just inspired me to go grab a bunch of 2017s. Got those dialed up and incoming. It’s a beast. My impression from almost two years ago is it needs serious time. Super intense and wiry. Should be fab...

Is there seriously an alternative that won't leave me ROFL? Letting your offsite storage company manage it. That's interesting. That's a shit ton of trust. Hit and miss from what I have seen/read. On the board, I think we've seen a good deal of similar outfits fail at that. If you are close in prox...

Appreciate the note and sounds like a treat. I'm sitting on a '71 large format (3.7L) and I'm hoping for a similar luck when I pop it.

I'd go #3. Each is its own thing though related. I'd take a night to immerse myself and celebrate each.

Alex G wrote: ↑March 16th, 2021, 5:39 pm
Rich K0rz€nk0 wrote: ↑March 16th, 2021, 5:27 pm Polite note, this belongs in the Beer and Spirits forum.
Ugh, sorry for the extra work, mods...

I'm sure they will graciously make right.

As they say, neither rain nor sleet nor snow....

err...

Sorry was thinking of another group of under-appreciated people.

Retails connections and friends in the business. They connect me.

Polite note, this belongs in the Beer and Spirits forum.

I will have to look at drinking the 17 then! I know the 12 specifically was smooth but not much fruit/flavor. I have some 13s and 16s as well. I know you can probably get some more from Stag's Leap. They usually try to sell their cellarius I'd pop this again tomorrow. I get a case from them a year,...

Interesting as I actually have one bottle! I found previous cellarius's to be super smooth but not much flavor. Have not had many earlier and I'm sitting on a small pile gong back to 2013. This one I just kinda grabbed no reason, a good 3 hours wide bottom decanter, the fruit was solid. Its not sup...

2017 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Cellarius I - USA, California, Napa Valley (3/15/2021) I know, infanticide. Sometimes you have to just go there. End of a good day, wanted something above average and this is definitely above average. Three hour decant. Heavy, Inky garnet/violet in t...

And you are not alone and we have had similar issues here in the states for quite a time. There are things here that are poorly understood IMO, still. Some got better, however broadly I don't think there's a unified view. Cassis and Currants where (and maybe still are) an easy target here in the st...

Any deconstructed Fruit salad especially involving things rarely encountered or overly specific. This one get tricky. Just because a fruit is rarely used in TNs doesn’t mean that it can’t be a valid descriptor. Miguel de Leon talked about this in an article he penned last year for PUNCH, talking ab...

4 x 2017 Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Feinherb Ur Alte Reben

Well this is a simple answer, you just give it to me

I'll send you my Zelle info

Victor Hong wrote: ↑March 14th, 2021, 7:35 pm I have been drinking the 1994 CS and Reserve steadily for the past twenty years. Not fading yet.

Ignore this post. The wine sucks.

Obviously a Risk guy, not Marketing

Markus S wrote: ↑March 14th, 2021, 7:26 pm Not THAT sounds more like it!

Right?!

Edit: glass 3, even has that light clove kinda xmas thing, baking spice thing going now.

I’ve had a few Orr bottlings. I’ve been lucky to have the Chenin Blanc and Grenache after 3 - 4 years of cellar time. The potential you’re tasting becomes real. Thanks Matt, that's what I took away. I knew I was baby killing as Pete notes however I was not expecting it to be that potent. I apprecia...

Night and Day, kinda perplexed to be honest. Funny enough, I popped last night's bottle because of the label. I moved from NY to my current state about a decade ago and many bottles came with me. For the tasting note below (bottle not pic, pic is from CT stock), the label was all kinda bubbly and pe...

I still wonder where that vanilla note comes from, if the producer really does only very old oak barrels. While not a major player, it still seems like something that is there - and it isn't an element native to Nebbiolo. To me, vanilla is not a descriptor that should pop up in a TN on traditionali...

I'm confused. Just a few days ago virtually everybody agreed that Porro was a very traditionalist producer. Now here's your tasting note that makes it sound that the wine was very modernist for a Barolo. I'm getting mixed signals here! Well, definitely seems to be a traditional producer; from Kermi...

2005 Guido Porro Barolo Vigna Lazzairasco - Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo (3/13/2021) Interestingly, the notes on this are all over the map. Me, had a decent experience. Some light bottle prep filtering out the sediment, which wasn't much, then a 2 hour decant. Swirls light in the glass with a fa...

2018 Orr Wines Merlot - USA, Washington, Columbia Valley (3/11/2021) PnP and my mistake, it needs time out. Like 3 hours out. First sips were just overbearing. It just needs its space to mellow out. Dark ruby in the glass and fairly opaque, swirls heavy. Nose was a brutish then lightened up after l...

2011 Bougetz Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Eminence - USA, California, Napa Valley (3/10/2021) Was in the mood for a nice cab tonight and this hit the spot for me. A well done bottle. Original intent was a PnP however I got busy s it sat for a few hours (3). I thin that was a good thing, was wide open...

Done, and when you sell my info, please make sure you get top dollar. I included all the key ingredients like SSN and DOB in addition to my BerserkerDay wine tastes.

2016 Tercero Cabernet Franc aberration - USA, California, Central Coast, Santa Barbara County (3/9/2021) Crunching numbers for tax season (not pro) and needed a break. This was a bottle to revel in the end of mind-numbing transaction categorization and reconciliation. That means I am not looking fo...

RIP

I think a, Montelena may be in order later

D@vid Bu3ker wrote: ↑March 8th, 2021, 1:06 pm
P@u1_M3nk3s wrote: ↑March 8th, 2021, 1:00 pm So you will drink the rest of your 18s soonish?
Maybe not all of them, but they will be ahead of the 2017s. I also have 2014s I want to drink up.

You just inspired me to go grab a bunch of 2017s. Got those dialed up and incoming.

Robert.A.Jr. wrote: ↑February 27th, 2021, 1:20 pm
Jeremy Holmes wrote: ↑February 26th, 2021, 5:37 pm Ted is hung like a rogue elephant!

Lol. Classic.

Someone needs to feed that poor guy a burger or three!

lol, was thinking the same thing, he needs a sammich..

And gotta love the Sherlock Holmes hat.

If he's wearing socks pulled up, I think that completes the Studio 54 look.

Love the detail on this. "I will taste over the week and see how the wine evoloves." You have more restraint than I do there. Rieslings rarely make it beyond day 3 for me despite my better intentions.

Selbach is just a great value. Sounds like another great offering. These go down way too easy. Not a bad strategy either with the 2017s.

I even heard there is a thread about the bad ones

somewhere

Sounds like a winner to me just by the palate. Then, good wine at a decent price. What's not to like. Nice note and good rec. Unheralded vintages can be a gold mine.

ChrisL wrote: ↑March 6th, 2021, 8:38 am If you have to ask, you can't afford it

So says the Todd

4 pages of market research. I can't help but wonder how this bumps up against WineBid's market research for this feature.

Or maybe this is the market research for how to market.

I can't see how this is a good thing on the surface however they seemed poised to give it the old college try.

When it rolls out, if it becomes frustrating like I suspect it will be, I just won't bid there anymore.

I had this last year and saw similar notes to yours - nice development after some decanting. It was a berserker day purchase and I grabbed some more this BD as well. Thx, these do very well for me. Hit a lot of notes i like. I've been drinking Briceland overall through quite a few BDs now and they ...

2016 Briceland Vineyards Pinot Noir Alderpoint Vineyard - USA, California, North Coast, Humboldt County (3/4/2021) So this got extended decanting, but not by design. I popped yesterday thinking a glass might have went with dinner, then I decided I wasn't in the mood for wine so it got the Vacu Vin ...

Hind sight, this may have made for a great poll however I'm sure Victor would have found a flaw [pwn.gif] That said, its fun reading through these and lots of commonality to be found. I'd also just ante that my wife can handle one glass, after two I'm peeling her off the floor lol. Well not that ba...

2014 Dr. Loosen Erdener Treppchen Riesling Spätlese - Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer (3/3/2021) This is a nice easy drinking Riesling. I can see this going with a variety of food preparations and styles however I'm just sipping this on a nice spring late afternoon with sunny skies and a warmth to the ai...

Rich, how sensitive are you to TCA? It sounds like the fruit might have been a bit muted on the first bottle, which would make the wine seem hotter. This is the type of thing that happens with a low-level TCA issue that is below one's threshold. Now that you mention it, I am not that sensitive to i...

So weird, and surprised, and its not often I get such variations in a bottle yet here I'm standing and just wondering WTF. I treated the first bottle with a ton of reverence as it was New Years; a decade old, and was really looking forward to it. Then it just showed not as much as I expected. Then ...

Sounds like she and my wife, Christine, would get along great. Similar tastes as I mentioned earlier, Caymus and Belle Glos. What's that Chard her and her friends all like? La Crema! Two glasses and she's bouncing off the walls and lots of fun but not much fun the next day ;-) Has finally learned t...

Just signed up, surprised I was missing out, looking forward to giving it a spin some day.

I'm going to have to reconsider much of above. Due to my disappointment with the prior bottle, I opted to pop another and clear some space for more wine to come in. Well, this bottle was on another level than the one above. I bought the lot together and it has been stored under optimal conditions, t...

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